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angĭna (for the quantity of the pen.,
I.v. the foll. examples, and cf. Wagner ad Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 139), ae, f. ἀγχόνη; v. ango.
I. The quinsy, as suffocating: Insperato abiit quam unā angina sustulit horā, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 35, 9: “Sues moriuntur angĭnā acri acerrume,” Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 139: “Angĭna verŏ sibi mixtum sale poscit acetum,” Ser. Samm. 282; Cels. 2, 10; 4, 4; Plin. 23, 2, 29, § 61 al.: anginam vinariam habere dicuntur, qui vino suffocantur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 28 Müll.—
II. Trop.: “angina mentis,” distress of mind, produced by physical disease, Tert. Anim. 48.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Plautus, Trinummus, 2.4
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 23.61
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.10
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 4.4
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